Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced?
click bookmark icon adjacent to the website URL to bookmark a website
click on “Folder” drop-down field and click “choose another folder”
click inside the box displaying the bookmark folders
begin typing the name of the bookmark folder you want to add the current website to
existing bookmarks living under sub-folders are NOT FOUND when typing its name
the list of bookmark folders needs to display FULLY expanded (all sub-folders open) so when you type the name of the folder being sought it is found so you can add the new bookmark to that folder
Expected result: find the bookmark folder to add the new bookmark to it
Additional Information: the ability to find a bookmark folder to add a new bookmark to the folder used to work until very recently…something was changed in a recent release so that the list of folders show no sub-folder content
Apologies but I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying – when you add a bookmark then click Choose another folder there is no “search” function here. The only text fields are for editing the name of the bookmark and/or the URL it’s pointing to. Finding sub folders is done through basic navigation – and on that note, all subfolders can be viewed. After clicking Choose another folder:
Thank you for the follow-up! No, sorry, not exactly. For example, when setting a website bookmark that I want to save to a bookmark folder ( I have hundreds of bookmark folders/sub-folders), from the screen you depicted, I ‘search’ for the bookmark folder by beginning to type the bookmark folder name…the system moves me to a folder matching the letters I type into the box outlined in blue depicted in your reply. For example, when i type “Sub 2” that folder is automatically located by the system and is highlighted so I can save the bookmark in the Sub 2 folder. The issue is that the bookmark folder display does not fully expand ALL sub-folders, but only the ‘Top-level’ folder is visible in your screenshot, not the Sub folder names, but it used to work that way. When the sub-folders are not displayed (expended), when I type the letters matching the sub-folder name I am seeking, they are not ‘found’ since they are not visible on the screen.
This is solved for by expanding all folders and sub-folders in the box as your image depicts. It used to work that way until recently.
Did my additional detail help with understanding the issue. My issue is true of ALL Brave users with sub-category bookmarks hierarchy. It’s important to resolve this on behalf of all Brave Users. Thanks!
I see – so you’re typing/“searching” for a certain folder by pressing the keyboard and it jumps to and selects the relevant folder based on the letter you typed. The issue is that it doesn’t jump to sub-folders in this way.
Yes, exactly. Because the sub-folders are not visible on the screen, typing the name of the sub-folder where I want to store the bookmark does not ‘find’ the sub-folder I am seeking. The solution is simple…when invoking the bookmark function the bookmark folders/sub-folders need to be FULLY exposed…show the entire bookmark tree including all sub-folders. Brave used to to this until recently.
Now that I have confirmed the issue and knowing it impacts all Brave users, will this fix (restoration of how it worked not long ago) be given a priority? I have invested a great deal of time in building a bookmark organization tree structure with sub-folders that is now useless because the bookmark tree is not fully expanded when invoking the function to bookmark a website. Thanks!
@ronr it’s certainly not “useless”, it just takes an additional step to get what you need. Alternatively, you could use the bookmarks sidebar instead, which might make it easier.
I will bring this up to the team but this appears to be an upstream issue and/or change in the Chromium code. I just tested this in Chrome, Edge and Opera (which all use Chromium) and they all behave the same way Brave does.
Thanks for the response and the investigation you undertook. I wish it were that simple, “an additional step.” I have 257 main level folders with MANY sub-folders living underneath each top-level folder…finding where the sub-folder is located in the bookmark folder tree when adding a new bookmark to it’s proper folder is akin to looking for a needle in a haystack. It’s not clear to me how the bookmarks sidebar solves for my challenge.
Appreciate you raising this issue with the team …hopefully fully expanding the bookmark tree by default when setting a bookmark is under Brave’s control…it used to work that way until very recently. Thanks - again, for your attention to this matter and interest in solving for this issue!
…update, I see that the bookmarks sidebar offers a search function which may aid my effort to find the bookmark folder of interest when bookmarking a site. I will try this out to see if it help to solve my issue. thanks.
